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What you need to know about Medicaid eligibility and redetermination
Montana health officials are set to begin a nearly yearlong process of reviewing the eligibility of every Medicaid recipient in the state. As a result, some may lose their coverage. Here's what current Medicaid recipients should know about redetermination of who is eligible for Medicaid coverage.
A bin of plastic bottles awaits compaction at Republic Services’ Missoula collection facility. Recycling experts say cleaning and drying your plastic, aluminum and tin products before dropping them off helps prevent recycling going to the landfill instead.
What's the story with recycling in Montana?
This week, we’re tackling more of a “big where” than a why. A listener wants to know, where does our recycling go in Montana?
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Bold women of Montana
Businesswoman and writer Rose Gordon poses with her brother, Taylor, in front of her White Sulphur Springs home, on May 1960, MHS Photo Archives 951-717
Bold Women: Rose Gordon, healer, writer and advocate for equality
Rose Gordon was born in White Sulphur Springs in 1883 to former slave Mary Goodall and African-Scottish cook John Gordon. When she died, community leaders carried her coffin and the newspaper celebrated the impact and courage.
A Rural Electrification Administration photo from the 1930s shows a woman using a washing machine with an electric water heater in the background.
Bold Women: Anna Boe Dahl, champion for rural electrification
Getting electricity to rural areas was a difficult feat in the 1930s. Anna Boe Dahl took up the challenge and in turn eased some of the burdens women faced.
Dr. Caroline McGill, circa 1955.
Bold Women: Caroline McGill, doctor and 'force of nature'
In the late 1900's Butte had tremendous need for more medical doctors. Caroline McGill, witnessing this, decided to become a medical doctor. For 40 years, she treated everything from knifings and venereal disease to the most common thing, mining accidents.
Members of Fort Shaw Indian School Girls Basketball Team (Front- G. Butch, B. Johnson, E. Sansaver; Back- N. Wirth, Mr. McCutcheon, K. Snell, M. Burton)
Bold Women: Fort Shaw Indian School, basketball & bridging cultural divides
Around 1892, two new entities serendipitously collided. One was Fort Shaw Indian School west of Great Falls. The other was the sport of basketball.
Fannie Sperry-Steele atop a rearing horse as the Champion Lady Bucking Horse Rider, Winnipeg Stampede, 1913.
Bold Women: Fannie Sperry Steele, bronc busting 'Champion of the World'
Fannie Sperry Steele raised thoroughbreds, worked in Wild West shows and competed in rodeos, winning firsts and setting records, especially in bronc riding.
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Bold Women: 'The whirlwind' Maggie Smith Hathaway, champion for women's suffrage
Of all Montana counties, Ravalli — the Bitterroot — had the most pro-suffrage votes. Historians attribute that to Maggie Smith Hathaway.
Montana Legislature
Capitol Talk is MTPR's weekly legislative news and analysis program. MTPR's Sally Mauk is joined by Lee Newspapers State Bureau Chief Holly Michels and UM Political Science Professor and Mansfield Center Fellow Rob Saldin.
Capitol Talk
Get a recap of this week's action at the Montana Legislature with news and analysis from Sally Mauk, Rob Saldin and Holly Michels. Online Friday afternoons. On air Saturdays at 9:44 a.m.
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The Session
The campaign rhetoric, power struggles and 2022 election results converge in the 68th Montana Legislature. Join us Mondays at 7:45 a.m. for a breakdown of what we’re watching in the statehouse.
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Arts & Life
Keeper of the Woods (Pine Squirrels)
Then, it happens. A pine squirrel wakes up. First one, then another, then three hundred, then five thousand, and before long the evergreen canopy is buzzing with their banter. From that moment forward, my pre-dawn slyness is a distant memory. There is no unwatched, uncriticized movement in these woods anymore. Any step I take is met with angry feedback from above.
Dr. Caroline McGill, circa 1955.
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Arts & Life
Bold Women: Caroline McGill, doctor and 'force of nature'
Beth Judy
Photos of the 2023 Whiting Award winners
Mia Chung photo by Chelcie Parry; Ama Codjoe photo by David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York; Marcia Douglas photo by Patrick Campbell; photos of all others by Willy Somma/The Whiting Foundation
Arts & Life
2023 Whiting Awards recognize 10 emerging writers
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Barriers stand near Trump Tower in New York City on Friday.
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What happens after Trump's indictment? Here are some of the logistical considerations
Rachel Treisman
The historic indictment of the former president raises all sorts of legal, political and logistical questions. While it's early days, experts expect a delayed trial after Tuesday's arraignment.
Former president Donald Trump, pictured here at the Conservative Political Action Conference in August, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday.
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5 key takeaways from the Trump indictment news
Emily Olson
In an aerial view, Tesla cars recharge at a Tesla charger station in Corte Madera, Calif., on Feb. 15, 2023. The Biden administration wants to boost sales of electric cars, but it also wants to incentivize U.S.-based production.
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The $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric car is about to change yet again
Camila Domonoske
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